The 26-County Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has admitted that his
government did not seek full status for the Irish language
during its presidency of the European Union.
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Ahern fudges on Irish status in EU
Published July 7, 2004
Ahern comments on abuse apology
The Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern admitted to the
Child Abuse Commission in Dublin today that the 26-County state
had “let down” victims of child abuse in the past.
Published July 5, 2004
By Danny Morrison
www.dannymorrison.com
www.dannymorrison.com
Seven weeks ago the IRA shot dead 34-year-old Brian Stewart in East Belfast. Two months before that the organisation killed 47-year-old Andrew Cully in Greyabbey by firing ten shots into him as he sat in his car. Three months before that the IRA killed 31-year-old John Allen at his home in Ballyclare.
Published July 5, 2004
A Catholic pensioner narrowly escaped injury yesterday when a
rock was thrown through her bedroom window by loyalists.
Published July 5, 2004
DRUMCREE QUIET, BUT DISPUTE CONTINUES
The tenth annual parade by Orangemen in Portadown since trouble
first arose passed off quietly yesterday, but there is still no
sign they will hold face-to-face talks with nationalist
residents.
Published July 5, 2004
Mass cancelled as Harryville intimidation lingers
Eight years after sectarian intimidation of Catholic church-goers
began in Ballymena, the doors of the Church of Our Lady closed on
Saturday night.
Published July 5, 2004
The Chief of the PSNI police has told a Sunday newspaper that he
believes the war by the Provisional IRA is over and that Sinn Féin
is moving closer to supporting his police force.
Published July 5, 2004
The case of a Limerick man sentenced to five years behind bars
without his lawyer present must be reviewed, Republican Sinn Féin
has said.
Published July 5, 2004
Ombudsman finds no collusion in Stobie death
The Police Ombudsman in the North, Nuala O’Loan, has said she
believes the PSNI police did all they could to protect a British
double-agent before he was shot dead.
Published July 5, 2004
On his latest visit to the North only last week, Robert McBride,
now a South African cop responsible for policing two million
people, appeared as a guest of Coiste na n-Iarchimi.
Published July 2, 2004
An announcement that a British Army base in County Down is to
close has been greeted with cynicism by republicans.
Published July 2, 2004
Concerns that a sectarian march could still be forced through
the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown were resolved after
the Protestant Orange Order dropped a legal challenge today.
Published July 2, 2004
Free Ciaran Ferry campaign appeal
The Ciaran Ferry Freedom Action Committee is holding a raffle to
benefit the legal defence fund for Ciaran, an Irish republican and
current U.S. resident unjustly imprisoned at the whim of U.S.
immigration authorities.
Published July 2, 2004
Another member of the Human Rights Commission has resigned,
claiming the body’s failure may have been orchestrated by the
British government.
Published July 2, 2004
Bomb alerts cause Belfast chaos
The breakaway ‘Real IRA’ has claimed responsibility for a series
of hoax bomb alerts which created traffic chaos across Belfast
early yesterday.
Published July 2, 2004
New Deputy Mayor commemorates Somme
Sinn Féin’s approach to the annual commemoration in Belfast of
the World War I Battle of the Somme has again proven
controversial.
Published July 2, 2004
DUP attacks Trimble after ‘scrap Stormont’ call
Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today accused of trying
to undermine efforts to restore the Belfast Assembly after
calling for it to be scrapped if a deal to revive it is not
reached it by September.
Published July 2, 2004
Adams meets Parades Commission after Springfield u-turn
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP led a party delegation today
to meet with the Parades Commission, which adjudicates over
contentious marches in the North of Ireland.
Published June 30, 2004
Consistently inconsistent is the policy
By Brian Feeeney (for the Irish News)
Bertie bounced in from Tokyo on his way to Shannon to meet Bush. Blair swanned in on his way to Istanbul. They patted the politicians from the north on the head, held a cursory press conference and made off.
Published June 30, 2004
Collusion concerns over spy post deployment
The British Army has installed elements of the notorious Ulster
Defence Regiment (UDR) in the spy post on the top of Divis Tower
in the heart of west Belfast.
Published June 30, 2004
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